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An Introduction to PIV

Congratulations to Shaily who successfully finished her M.Sc. thesis on the fluid-structure interaction model of an aortic valve. Shaily modeled the flow and the contact of the valve for several cases from healthy to stenosis and with transplant valves (TAVI) in two configurations. The results and the conclusions are clear and very prominent. We hope to see her journal publication being reviewed and published soon.

We are very glad to come back from our first ever “field” experiment with the
3D-PTV system. Ron and Alex, with great help of Yosef and the team of the IIBR
have managed to safely transfer (both ways), install and measure in the (likely) the
largest wind tunnel in Israel at the Institute for Biological Research. The real-time
image processing system allows us to downscale the 3D-PTV recording bandwidth
so significantly that we can pack the system in 3-4 boxes and arrive at your place.
We could also measure at the speed of 1 m/s in the rough boundary layer. More details
to follow. No images were released for the public yet.

Oz Habibi has received the Boris Mints Institute scholarship for alternative energy projects,
http://www.bmiglobalsolutions.org/ and the Gordon institute for Energy Research grant to purchase
an experimental system for his groundbreaking research on intensification of macro-algae growth.

We all are shocked and very sorry to know about so abrupt and unexpected loss of Erez Wenger, our colleague in the
past, alumni of the laboratory. Erez started his M.Sc. thesis with our group, continued with Prof. Avi Kribus
and tragically passed away at the final stages of his thesis. He was a great man and excellent student. His family
received his M.Sc. degree diploma. The abstract of his work can be read from PDF

Our lab is a proud member of the Metro450 consortium, http://www.metro450.org.il/ - a wafer
metrology consortium under MAGNET of the Chief Scientist Office. We participate in the Work Package
number 3, http://www.metro450.org.il/Metro450/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=1122
working on the prevention of wafer contamination using flows. Our partner is the Applied Materials (Israel)
with whom we try to solve the problems in the LoadLock unit that is responsible for the
transfer of the wafer from atmospheric to vacuum pressure and back. In addition, we develop a
three-dimensional mobile imaging system for the flow analysis in-situ for other partners, such as
Jordan Valley and Intel.

Together with Prof. Ally Harari from the Volcani center, the Agricultural Research center, and Prof. Roi Gurka from the Coastal Caroline University, we have got approved the Bi-National Science Foundation grant. The project is starting up, the first preliminary results you might find interesting were posted here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1411